From: Stein, Stephen
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:22 PM
To: 'letters@nytimes.com' <letters@nytimes.com>
Subject: Even if Trump is the Enemy, His Voters Aren't - Feb. 23, 2017
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:22 PM
To: 'letters@nytimes.com' <letters@nytimes.com>
Subject: Even if Trump is the Enemy, His Voters Aren't - Feb. 23, 2017
In fact, Trump’s voters are the enemy. Trump himself is
despicable, but we have known from the beginning what he is, a classic immature
ill-informed bully. People like him are a dime a dozen. We see them every
day. What is “deplorable” is that such a person could be elected President.
For that we can’t blame him. He has not pretended to be anyone other than who
he is. His voters are another story. Leaving aside the racists, white
supremacists, misogynists and other ethnocentric bigots, who are undeniably the
enemy, the other Trump voters had a choice, and they knowingly chose badly. If
they could do so with the information available to all, they cannot be trusted
or persuaded to do any better in the future. They have delivered us to the
worst of times and are the cause of what will be much suffering for people who
can least afford it, have put the country at risk and have rejected the historic
values of the nation. To say that some of his voters had fallen on hard times,
whatever sympathy such circumstances may evoke, doesn’t excuse voting for such a
truly and obviously dangerous man just because they may have been enduring
hardship themselves. On the other hand, if the excuse is ignorance, willful or
otherwise, that is hardly an acceptable explanation either. In a democracy,
ignorance is indeed the enemy.
Stephen Stein
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